Texts to Accompany Literature

Use the links below to find nonfiction pieces to accompany literature along with teaching ideas from the New York Times Learning Network. The text to text pages include excerpts from the literature if you are not planning to teach the entire work.

Teaching Maya Angelou with New York Times
Text to Text: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Text to Text: The Book Thief
Text to Text: Catcher in the Rye
Teaching The Crucible with New York Times
Teaching Frankenstein with New York Times
Text to Text: The Giver
Text to Text: The Glass Castle
Teaching The Great Gatsby with The New York Times
Text to Text: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Text to Text: Henry David Thoreau's "Walking"
Ideas and Resources for Teaching The Hunger Games
Teaching The Kite Runner with The New York Times
Text to Text: Lord of the Flies
Text to Text: Of Mice and Men
Text to Text: The Necklace
Teaching Orwell and 1984 with The New York Times
Text to Text: A Raisin in the Sun
Ideas and Resources for Teaching Shakespeare
Teaching Twain and Huckleberry Finn with The New York Times
Text to Text: The Scarlet Letter
Text to Text: Speak
Teaching Mockingbird, Watchman and Harper Lee with The New York Times